The University Seminars Program

The University Seminars Program of Onassis Foundation USA organizes and sponsors the visits of eminent visiting scholars and prestigious speakers from the United States and abroad to University campuses and other educational and cultural institutions across the United States, Canada, Central and South America. Those invitees who offer mini courses and semester courses are integrated in the academic curriculum of the host universities as Onassis Visiting Professors and their students receive the corresponding academic credits.

The Program’s Visiting Scholars offer Seminar, Lectures, Mini Courses and Full Semester Courses on topics that relate to all periods and aspects of Hellenic history, culture and society. The University Seminars Program also enriches its educational initiative through organizing and co-sponsoring special events such as international conferences, documentary film screenings and book presentations throughout the Americas. Selected events are open to the public.

Since the inception of the Program in 2000, more than 200 scholars have been hosted by more than 500 educational and cultural institutions across the USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica and Colombia.

University Seminars Program 2016

COURSES AND MINI COURSES Dr Mirjam E. Kotwick (Onassis Lectureship at the New School, 2016)
Philology. University of Munich

ACADEMIC TOURS Professor Menelaos Christopoulos (February 27- March 26)
Classics. University of Patras
(The University Seminars Program contributes one “Onassis Lecturer” to the annual Summer Institute of the Classical Association of New England since 2005)

Past Senior Visiting Scholars

Check out some of the past Onassis Senior Visiting Scholars from Europe, North and South America and Australia have been hosted by more than 300 University Departments, Museums, and other major educational and cultural centers across the US, Canada, and Central and South America.

Host Educational Institutions

The following institutions have hosted Senior Visiting Scholars of the University Seminars Program: